Tropical islands should be fun, though, like an entire game made out of the best parts of Hoenn's level design. Too much water, aye, IGN?

Oh yeah, unless I'm much mistaken it looks like the oveworld is a lot less grid-snappy than X and Y were, which I am very excited about. Other than that, this may well be the generation that looks most similar to the previous one. Guess they already pushed the 3DS about as far as they could with a lot of things.

Tropical islands should be fun, though, like an entire game made out of the best parts of Hoenn's level design. Too much water, aye, IGN?

Oh yeah, I did notice that while watching the Japanese trailer. I've heard numerous times that the region is likely based on Hawaii, from the design of the buildings and vehicles, to the license plates on said vehicles. Maybe this is the Orange Islands game that we all wanted as kids?

(On the list of things I really hope do not get taken from the anime is Ash-Greninja. I don't want that to be their replacement or augmentation of Mega Evolution.)

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Oh yeah, unless I'm much mistaken it looks like the oveworld is a lot less grid-snappy than X and Y were, which I am very excited about. Other than that, this may well be the generation that looks most similar to the previous one. Guess they already pushed the 3DS about as far as they could with a lot of things.

I was thinking about that last night. It seems like all the games on the same system tend to be based on the same engine with a few tweaks:

Definitely seems like a viable idea, but it's interesting to me that this is a whole new generation though. X/Y had the smallest new Pokédex entry though, so we may be able to see this as Gen 6.5 almost. On another note... I'm getting the bowtie owl. He is adorable and must get many hugs.

I'm a fan of the bow-tie Owl, not so much the other two starters and the two legendary Pokemon. They're not bad by any means but I'm left slightly disappointed by them after looking at various fan-art around the internet. Big fan of the region though, should be good fun! Also seen some speculation of the Fire starter evolutions being Fire/Poison which could be interesting.

Seems to be (one of) the Gen 7 early-game Normal type(s) - small, brown coloration, mammalian, etc. I liked Lillipup and Bunnelby, I have no idea exactly what animal this is supposed to be but it's safe to say I have decently high hopes for it.

It's kind of brown-ish, and we already have a brown Eevee, so I don't think it's one of those somehow. So far all of the Eeveelutions have had colors somewhat indicative of their types.